(translation - "There is a shop nearby, preceded by the
entrance to the house of the shopkeeper, which had a tetrastyle atrium with its
impluvium, and the steps to access the rooms on the upper floor”. )

VI.17.5 Pompeii. 1824 plan of house drawn by Mazois, with descriptive
numbers.

He described the house as belonging to a small merchant,
“one of the less fortunate”.

It contained:

an entrance corridor (1),

a shop (2),

a covered courtyard (3), where the roof is supported by
columns, and which forms a kind of atrium pseudotetrastyle,
with an impluvium or basin (4) to receive the rain-water,

a bedroom (5) for the master,

another small room, for the servant or slave, which we get
to by way of a wooden staircase (6),

According to Mazois, this is the cross-section of this house
shown along the length of the corridor.

The columns of the courtyard are painted red to one-third of
their height, the rest is white.

All that which is above the punctuated line, no longer
exists, I was obliged to assume the idea of what this small building would be
this like; but the clues that the ruins offer me, and the comments I made on
the construction of the houses of Pompeii, allow me to make this restoration as
real as possible.